Hank Yang wrote:> Hello.> > That's because the linux-kernel misunderstand the raid controller> to IDE controller. If do so, The raid driver will be unstable when> be loaded.> > So we must to prevent the raio controller to be as IDE controller> here.

Dear Hank. Please let me elaborate a bit on this, to see whateverI understand the issues.

The Promise controlled is NOT a true self hosted RAID controller.It is just a bunch of ATA host chips, which a software add onin some ROM exposed as BIOS to Win32 systems, making it possiblefor them to view multiple configurations of the disks as once singlenice RAID.

However under linux we have the nice ataraid.c driver, which isallowing one to use whichever ATA disks one wan't on whicheverchannels as RAID. The overhead of running the RAID functionality codefrom true nice RAMBUS RAM, in comparision to stincking flash RAMon some PCI card behind two bridges is in fact negative ;-).

It doesn't therefore make any sense for a linux user to usethe PDC as something elese then a bunch of host chennel chips.